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Full of promise

Don’t you love this time of year? I don’t mean those grey, dark days or sheeting rain of course. It’s the little glimpses of spring and hints that the darkest days are over which begin to seep into my soul as the days lengthen. You can almost breathe in a kind of energy from the freezing, morning air. The birds are singing too.

The snowdrops in our garden are still little points of white but the primroses are braving the chill and need inspecting and enjoying every day so as not to miss a moment.

Spring colours are some of my favourites. They really do cheer me up. I’m sure the seasons influence our colour choices more than we realise. The teeny tiny shop here at Escape to the crochet is mostly a glorious selection of Stylecraft Special DK and it’s the yellows, purples and bright greens which are shouting at me for a new project, full of promise.

I loved putting together this spring wreath so I hope you’ll enjoy looking at it once again even though not new this year.

I hope it’s a good time of year to start a new blog and thank you for reading.

Meet Gillian

Hello my name is Gillian and thank you for visiting me at Escape to the Crochet here in beautiful Northumberland.

David and I run our cosy little B&B here on our smallholding and especially love to welcome guests to our crochet day retreats and short breaks where it’s all about colourful crochet, homemade cakes and good home cooking.

Crochet gives me an escape that I love and I hope to share the joy with you, along with some of my other favourite escapes.